Clark Haaland
@clark_h
Clark Haaland
Art and morals are... one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.
Maria Popova • What Love Really Means: Iris Murdoch on Unselfing, the Symmetry Between Art and Morality, and How We Unblind Ourselves to Each Other’s Realities
Art and Thought provoking
The candle is a symbol of Our Lord, the Light of the World. Candles were lit in the church and carried home, a symbol of the Gospel being carried out into the world. The very composition of the candle itself is symbolic - the pure wax, made from virginal bees, is a symbol of the pure flesh of the Savior produced from the immaculate womb of Blessed... See more
Candlemas
July 10th, 2025
A newsletter by Anne-Laure Le Cunff
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Hello friends,
I recently had dinner with a famous author, a scientist and an artist. Despite their obvious success, the conversation turned to how often they all felt “not smart enough.”
I experience this too, especially when I’m around accomplished people. Since I know many... See more
July 10th, 2025
A newsletter by Anne-Laure Le Cunff
READ ON THE WEB
Hello friends,
I recently had dinner with a famous author, a scientist and an artist. Despite their obvious success, the conversation turned to how often they all felt “not smart enough.”
I experience this too, especially when I’m around accomplished people. Since I know many... See more
Ness Labs: The Psychology of Intellectual Self-Doubt 🧠
Brain Food: Embracing Life
mail.google.comLive music is a ritual that evokes a common emotional response to which we attach our singular experiences.
The Red Hand Files Issue #306
The thing you are deeply yearning to create is told to you in all the subtle ways other people's artwork slightly misses the mark
Miles Johnstonx.comIf you get to where you wanted to go, something’s gone wrong.
Riley Brewster - Artist Commenting on the process of creating art
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"When dreaming, imagine success.
When preparing, imagine failure.
When acting, imagine success."
"When dreaming, imagine success.
When preparing, imagine failure.
When acting, imagine success."
3-2-1: How to learn faster, what you put into the world, and the value of numerous attempts
The philosopher Kierkegaard wrote 150 years ago, and he was one of the first psychological philosophers who really wrote about anxiety. He regarded himself rather useless, all things considered. He wrote a section in one of his books about all the industrialists who were operating in Europe at that time, trying in every possible way to make life... See more